Guitar Wolf at Santos Party House (9/23/10)

Peelander-Z pumped us up right proper, and we waited with eager anticipation for Guitar Wolf to begin. Austin and I concocted a grand plan to play the Wild Zero drinking game live. Since it was an all-ages show we weren’t sure how many beers we could get away with buying at once, but 2 per person seemed to work.

We figured (correctly) we were limited to the following rules:

• Someone drinks
• Someone combs their hair
• Anyone says Rock n Roll

And we figured we were in good shape when Seiji took the stage and immediately pounded an entire Budweiser. I tried to keep up, but I wasn’t ready for it so I ended up spewing beer dangerously close to the girl in front of me. They immediately launched into some signature balls-to-the-wall let’s-fuck-this-place-up rock. With plenty of gutteral screaming in either broken English or regular Japanese; I can never quite tell. When polled, our friends agreed on two things:

1. Their set was fucking awesome
2. The only song we were certain we recognized was “Jet Generation”

Which means that we probably missed a bunch of “Rock n Rolls”, and thus missed out on some drinking. We just assumed that he must be saying it, so we took a couple of drinks per verse. Then after maybe the 7th song, Drum Wolf combed his hair for a solid 40 seconds.

Peelander-Z definitely had more crazy antics, but Guitar Wolf pulled out some tricks of their own. Seiji dragged a guy up on stage to play guitar for him, and during a separate incident, he spent a good 5 minutes constructing a human pyramid out of audience members. Sam took an awesome video of the latter on his fancy new phone.

The drinking game wasn’t as punishing as in the movie. That’s good because we were in public, but also bad because we were really hoping they would bring that microphone that shoots fire out of it to the show. This was my first time at Santos Party House, and I liked it quite a bit. I’d heard some “maybe this place isn’t for us”-style reports from friends, but the crowd seemed well-mannered and enthusiastic, and the venue was clean and professional. It had the average amount of big poles blocking the stage, which is too many but also the right amount (since they hold the building up after all). Best yet, the men’s room has a real live attendant who squirts soap on you and hands you paper towels. I wanted to photograph him for a bathroom review, but was too shy. I’ll probably be returning to Santos Party House in the near future, so I’ll just have to get liquored up beforehand to give me courage.

Tags: bathroom attendant, Guitar Wolf, human pyramid, Jet Generation, Santos Party House, Wild Zero drinking game

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